Reuti wrote:
> Hi,
>> Am 09.05.2008 um 20:26 schrieb Prentice Bisbal:
>>> At a previous job, I installed SGE for our cluster. At my current job
>> Torque is the queuing system of choice. I'm very familar with SGE, but
>> only have a cursory knowledge of Torque (installed it for evaluation,
>> and that's it). We're about to purchase a new cluster. I'd have to make
>> a good argument for using SGE over Torque. I was wondering if the
>> following SGE features exist in Torque:
>>>> 1. Interactive shells managed by queuing system
>> 2. Counting licenses in use (done using a contributed shell script in
>> SGE)
>> 3. Separation of roles between submit hosts, execution hosts, and
>> administration hosts
>> 4. Certificate-based security.
>>>> Are there any notable features available in Torque that aren't available
>> in SGE?
>> what you can find in Torque but not in SGE: request a mixture of nodes,
> i.e. one heavy node with much memory (or big I/O options) and 5 nodes
> with less memory or less disk performance for a parallel job.
>
Not true. Torque syntax is much cleaner for doing this, but you
can do it in SGE. Call the big memory hosts "bigmemN", where N
is an integer from zero to how many ever servers you have.
Create a hostgroup with the compute nodes called "@compx". Subsequently
create at parallel environment and queue that use this host group.
Normal jobs will go into this parallel environment.
Next, create a parallel environment called pebigmem. Then,
for each host, create an individual queue called qbigmemN.q
(replace N with the appropriate integer). For each queue,
specify the host list as:
hostlist bigmemN @compx
When you launch a job, the call to qsub should include:
qsub -pe pebigmem 6 -masterq qbigmem0.q at bigmem0,qbigmem1.q at bigmem1,.....
The -masterq line should list every bigmem queue instance.
At our site, we have a qsub wrapper script that when a user asks
for the parallel environment "pebigmem", we add the -masterq line
to hide the details from them.
If I hadn't figured out how to do this 6 years ago, we could
have never migrated from OpenPBS to SGE.
Craig
> OTOH, if you have parallel jobs:
>http://www.beowulf.org/archive/2007-September/019269.html>> What is different between them from the idea: in Torque you submit a job
> into a queue, while in SGE you request resources and SGE will select an
> appropriate queue for you.
>> -- Reuti
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